Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, (Paperback)

from kmacneill

This book would be great to use in a Living Like A Writer workshop. It would demonstrate how real authors collaborate together to create a single work. It can also be used to demonstrate the power of typography and the effect it has on a poem. Typography can emphasize or de-emphasize certain word...

from asomers

I can't wait to try my hand at writing my own list poems. Very inspirational!

from AndrewJenkins

Aside from the covers, this book is very little illustrated, though it uses creative typesetting to enliven the pages, the titles are in blue (the rest is in black), and one poem about the moon has a blue background with the poem in a curved shape, and another (Things to do if you are a pencil) h...

from gildallie

The illustration was basically typographical, with some of the words being typed in shapes (such as the shape of a pencil). I liked the illustration and I think most kids enjoy lists of things; trees, school items etc... I'm not exactly sure why they do; it just seems something common amongst mos...

from Ghost_Tomas

This is a book of simple poetry for young readers. The big draw for this book is that the format is vertical rather than horizontal. However, the poems themselves don't utilize this to its full advantage. I think they could have done more with the unique format.